Akhil Gupta is the founder of the Universal Enlightenment & Flourishing (UEF) Foundation and a past fellow and Impact Leader in Residence at the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. He previously served as Senior Managing Director at The Blackstone Group and held leadership roles at Reliance Industries Limited and Hindustan Unilever. Akhil is currently on the advisory boards of three of Harvard University’s entities- Harvard Divinity School, the Human Flourishing Program, and Harvard Chan Initiative on Health and Homelessness. He is the author of two books, ‘Bridges across Humanity’, and 'To Flourish is to Love, Learn, Play’.